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$3.99 (eBook) - $10 (paperback) • $20 (library hardcover) • 68 pp.

PB ISBN (2nd ed.): 978-1949769258

Library HC: 978-1949769081

PB ISBN (1st ed., out of print): 978-1983777271

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like F*ck This

8th Circle Press (1st ed. 2014, 2nd ed. 2021)

“If you’re looking for something tart to cut the holiday sweetness, Shaffer offers a naughty little treat.” — The Gazette

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like F*ck This is an off-beat collection of Christmas essays, poems, short stories, and cartoons by New York Times bestselling humorist Andrew Shaffer. 

Previously published as The Shelf on the Elf, this newly-expanded holiday cult classic has it all: holiday pickles, talking lambs, and knife-wielding maniacs.

Table of Contents:

The True Meaning of Christmas (cartoon)

The Christmas Snitch (poem)

Regret (poem)

Law & Order: A Very Special Christmas Episode (short story)

Frontline In the War on Christmas (essay, abridged online as "Waving the White Flag in the War on Christmas")

Do You Hear What I Hear? (poem)

The World Is Going to Shit (cartoon)

Hiding the Holiday Pickle (essay)

An Earl Grey Christmas (short story)

Some Good News and Bad News About Santa (poem)

Hunting Season (essay)

A Terrible Joke Only '90s Kids Will Get (cartoon)

The Murders Across the Street from the Rue Whorehouse: A Christmas Story (short story, also available in the collection The Telltale Hardon and Other Perversions)

Some Thoughts for a Bleak Midwinter Night (poem)